Dear Mr. Gates:

 

 

 

 

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Date:  Sun, 29 July 2007  11:04 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Down for Lunch at Penang Bistro

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 25 July 2007, my ex-senior high school friends held a monthly gathering at Penang Bistro restaurant, at Pakubuwono Street, nearby Apotik Melawai. It was the second time they held it there, previously the same place was also chosen and it was at the second floor. But at that first gathering there I went there a few hours too early due to my reading the time of the event mistakenly, so I canceled the visit like I wrote in my previous letter of "Escorted Upstairs at Penang Bistro".

This time I was not mistakenly read the time. But something else bothering me that day. After I asked the receptionist, she pointed to the tables on the ground floor, not on the second floor anymore like in the previous gathering. I became worry, from the previous gathering at the second floor, this time at the ground floor, it would be like my going down for the lunch, and it could be like against my consent to move up to the eternity. Nevertheless I had been there, it would be odd to cancel my visit, especially if my friends had spot my coming there.

I had no other choice than to resume meeting my friends and had some lunch, while hoping it would cause nothing bad later on.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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Date:  Sun, 29 July 2007  11:18 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Huge Fire at Big Grocery Market Pasar Turi After My Going Down For Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

People trying to help the traders save their merchandise when the fire started at Pasar Turi on Thursday, 26 July 2007.

foto.detik.com / Zainal Effendi

 

Traders piled up their merchandises at the yard of Pasar Turi Surabaya, East Java,  after the fire began on  Thursday, 26 July 2007.

foto.detik.com / Zainal Effendi

 

 

 

Firefighter trying to extinguish the fire at Pasar Turi, Surabaya, on Thursday, 26 July 2007. 

foto.detik.com / Zainal Effendi

 

A fire engine entered the Pasar Turi market on Thursday, 26 July 2007 to locate the fire.

foto.detik.com / Zainal Effendi

 

 

 

Smoke from the fire at the building of Pasar Turi grocery market in Surabaya seen from the sky. 

foto.detik.com / Steven Lenakoly

 

Cloud of smoke went to the sky at the city of Surabaya during the fire of Pasar Turi, on the second day, Friday, 27 July 2007.

foto.detik.com / Steven Lenakoly

 

 

 

A small tractor trying to make a hole on the wall to ease the firefighter in spraying the water into the building of Pasar Turi market, Surabaya, on Friday, 27 July 2007.

foto.detik.com / Steven Lenakoly

 

A fire engine spraying water to the fire in the building of Pasar Turi on the second day of the fire, Friday, 27 July 2007.

foto.detik.com / Steven Lenakoly

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently my worry of the effects of my "going down for lunch" in Penang Bistro on Wednesday became materialized. On the next day, Thursday 26 July 2007, there was a fire at Pasar Turi, at the city of Surabaya, East Java. Pasar Turi, a four stories building, is the biggest grocery market for the Eastern parts of Indonesia, with more than 4000 shops, selling garments, textiles, shoes, sandals, plastic house wares, carpets and rugs, electronics.

At first the fire was only on some small parts at the ground floor. More than  40 fire engines has been trying to extinguish the fire, yet until the next day, Friday, the fire kept on getting bigger, that almost 80% of the market were burnt.

It really created a feeling of my being reminded of not going down that will be like against my consent to move up to the eternity to get out of this world for the good of this world. This reminder becomes stronger when I realized the photographers name in foto.detik.com for this Pasar Turi coverage. 

The photographers were Zainal Effendi and Steven Lenakoly, both of them like related with the name of my sister in law, Lena, the wife of my brother Faisal. The last name of Zaenal Effendi is like the name of my sister in law's father Mr. Effendi. While the last name of Steven Lenakoly is like containing the name Lena of my sister in law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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Date:  Sun, 29 July 2007  12:04 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Earth Quake at Ternate

 

 

 

 

AFP/Graphic Photo:

Map locating the epicentre of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck at sea in Ternate.

 

 

 

Powerful Quake Rocks Eastern Indonesia

Thursday July 26, 2:54 PM

AP via Yahoo! Asia News

 

A powerful earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia on Thursday, sending residents fleeing from swaying homes and hospitals, authorities and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of damage.

The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7, triggered a tsunami warning but the alert was quickly lifted after it became clear no destructive waves had been generated, the country's geophysics agency said.

The earthquake struck under the Maluku Sea at a depth of 20 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. The quake's epicenter was more than 130 miles north of Ternate city.

"We felt a strong tremor for almost a minute, people ran in panic from buildings, said George Rajaloa, a resident in Ternate.

"Children are crying and their mothers are screaming, but there is no damage in my area." Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

In December 2004, a massive earthquake struck off Sumatra island and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, including 160,000 people in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh. Just over a year ago, another quake-generated tsunami killed around 600 people on Java island.

 

 

 

 

Another disaster happened after my going down for lunch at Penang Bistro was an earth quake at Ternate in the Eastern part of Indonesia. Thank God it caused no serious damages and no casualties, as if it was merely a reminder to me but still in accordance with this closing the window of disaster so it caused no serious damages and no casualties.

In such situation now what I can do is to wish that somebody would help me realize "A Test of Getting Wealthy" so I can concentrate more on my moving out to the eternity for the good of this world without endangering others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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Date:  Sun, 29 July 2007  12:27 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Another Huge Fire at "Hot River", Cipanas Market

 

 

 

 

Fire on Saturday, 28 July 2007, at the building of Cipanas market, the mountainous area close to Puncak, a famous mountainous retreat, at the South around 100 km from Jakarta.

foto.detik.com / Rosdiana Dewi

 

 

 

 

People watched the fire at the building of Cipanas market, the mountainous area close to Puncak, a famous mountainous retreat, around 100 km to the South from Jakarta.

foto.detik.com / Rosdiana Dewi

 

Onlookers in the street in front of the building of Cipanas market that was on fire, Saturday, 28 July 2007. Cipanas is the mountainous area close to Puncak, a famous mountainous retreat, around 100 km to the South from Jakarta.

foto.detik.com / Rosdiana Dewi

 

 

 

After the huge fire at Pasar Turi Surabaya on Thursday and Friday, 26 and 27 July 2007, another huge fire took place at Cipanas market on Saturday 28 July 2007. Cipanas is the mountainous area close to Puncak, a famous mountainous retreat, around 100 km to the South from Jakarta.

The name Cipanas comes from two words, "Ci" from Sundanese language which means "river", and "panas" from Indonesian word which means "hot". So the name Cipanas has the meaning of "hot river".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

 

Thank's,

A.M. Firmansyah

[email protected]

Tel. +62812 183 1538

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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